402 Ireland: Chats with Locals
Ireland and the Irish - we all have a story to tell, right? In this episode I get the insider stories from Ireland - both the Republic of Ir...
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The Thoughtful Travel Podcast with Amanda Kendle is a show for travel lovers. Each episode is packed with travel stories from fellow travel addicts on topics like using foreign languages, me...
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20 of 429 episodes401 Travel-Related Careers
About one in ten jobs across the globe are in the travel industry, but from the hundreds of conversations I've had over the years, I've lear...
400 Forty Questions for Four Hundred Episodes
Episode 400 ... what?! Back in 2016, I certainly didn't imagine I'd reach Episode 400, and yet, here we are. It seemed something to celebrat...
399 Impacts of Childhood Travel
For those of us with the great fortune of being taken travelling in our childhood, I'm certain that there are many ways this impacts our liv...
Book Club 26: Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
This special episode is the audio of the livestream of the July 2026 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, chatting about book "Tr...
398 Conservation and Tourism
We all want the places we visit to exist for longer than our lifetime (and hopefully MUCH longer) - right? Conservation in the travel space...
397 Travel Dramas Always Teach Us Something
Things inevitably go wrong when we travel - some big, some small, occasionally some trip-ending, but most travel dramas seem to end up being...
396 Spending A Year Abroad
If you have the opportunity to spend an extended time travelling - like an entire year - I say, grab it! In this episode I chat with three p...
395 Cultural Deep Dives
Learning more about a place when we travel there is something that always gives me a thrill, and in this episode we take a cultural deep div...
394 Unusual Accommodation
Where do you sleep when a trip takes you away from a standard hotel room? This episode features some of the more unusual kinds of places we...
393 Taiwan: Chats with Locals
Taiwan is starting to gain more attention as a fascinating place to visit: it's a great blend of delicious food, interesting history and cul...
392 What You'd Tell Your Younger Travelling Self
If you could go back in time and tap on the shoulder of your younger self as you backpack around the world, what would you say? I've been po...
Book Club 25: The Venice Hotel by Tess Woods
This special episode is the audio of the live-streamed May 2026 meeting of the Thoughtful Travellers Book Club, chatting about "The Venice H...
391 Enviable Travel Jobs
It's easy to be a little envious of anyone who gets to travel to interesting places as part of their work, but when the work itself is also...
390 How to be a Good Volunteer Abroad
The world of volunteer tourism is a tricky one. Getting the balance right between enabling people to volunteer in another country, and meeti...
389 How Travel Transforms Our Thinking
The more I travel (and the older I get!), the more I realise how little I know, and how wrong I've been about so many things! In this episod...
388 Iceland: Chats with Locals
Iceland is a place many travellers dream of visiting; if, like me, you've been lucky enough to see Iceland, you probably desperately want to...
387 Ten Years of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
A decade ago to the day - 25th March 2016 - I launched the first episodes of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast. Somehow, I have just kept interv...
386 It Could’ve Been Much Worse: Surviving Travel Dramas
Some travellers have a much keener sense of adventure and embracing physical risk on their travels, and others just stumble into a travel dr...
385 Women in History and Travel - International Women’s Day 2026
It's International Women's Day again and I've got a different focus this year: some of the ways history and travel is not the same for women...